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1An index for SliceOfLife {{Anime}} and {{Manga}}. See also the related genres {{Iyashikei}} and SchoolgirlSeries, both of which often overlap with slice of life.
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3For tropes commonly used in these works, see JapaneseMediaTropes.
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6* ''Manga/AChannel'': Slice of high school girl life. Best summed up by the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfj4Il2qH-8 end credits.]]
7* ''Manga/AfterTheRain2014'': Slice of life story of a highschool girl working a part-time job at a restaurant who likes the restaurant manager, who's divorced with a young son.
8* ''Anime/{{Aggretsuko}}'': Slice of office life starring an overworked and underappreciated red panda who vents her frustration by singing DeathMetal {{karaoke|box}}.
9* ''Manga/AhAndMmAreAllSheSays'': A young manga artist who [[TheQuietOne has trouble speaking]] enters the world of erotic manga publishing, guided by an editor she moves in with.
10* ''Manga/AiShiteNight'': LoveTriangle slice of life with Rock 'n' Roll occasionally thrown in.
11* ''Manga/AiRen'': Slice of life AfterTheEnd.
12* ''Manga/AkebisSailorUniform'': Slice of life about a girl who aims to make friends at her new middle school, despite how her SailorFuku makes her stand out from everyone else.
13* ''Manga/{{Amanchu}}'': Slice of scuba diving life.
14* ''Anime/AnimalCrossingTheMovie'' details a girl moving into a village filled with {{funny animal}}s. No villain, only minor conflicts, and no real overarching plot.
15* ''Manga/{{ARIA}}'': Slice of Venetian {{terraform}}ed Mars life. With SceneryPorn. Lots and lots of Scenery Porn.
16* ''Anime/{{Arrietty}}'': Slice of life about a tiny daughter as she befriends a human and fight for her family's safety.
17%%* ''Anime/{{Atashinchi}}''
18* ''Manga/AzumangaDaioh'': Slices of the lives of six schoolgirls and two of their teachers. One of the most iconic examples in manga and anime, and it would become the TropeCodifier of the SchoolgirlSeries, which is a closely related sub-genre.
19* ''Manga/BabyAndMe'': Slice of [[BigBrotherInstinct big brother]] life.f
20* ''Manga/BackStreetGirls'': Slice of life BlackComedy manga about three yakuza wakashus forced to become idols for their group.
21* ''Manga/{{Barakamon}}'': Slice of back country island life for a city calligrapher.
22* ''Manga/{{BECK|1999}}'': Slice of high school (on the first part of the manga, and almost all of the anime) and rock band life (which makes up most of the manga from the halfway part, and became an AbortedArc from the anime).
23* ''Manga/BambooBlade'': Slice of [[NerfArm shinai]]-wielding life.
24* ''Anime/{{Bananya}}'': Concerning the secret lives of tiny cats disguised as bananas.
25* ''Manga/BeautyAndTheFeast'' is an episodic story that follows Yakumo's and Yamato's daily lives, be it cooking and eating, baseball practice, or visiting friends and family.
26* ''Manga/BinbouShimaiMonogatari'': Slice of life with lots of CherryBlossoms.
27* ''Manga/{{Biotop}}'': Slice of life about an angel who is given the task to give wishes to 100 people, before HilarityEnsues begin.
28* ''Manga/BlueFlag'': Slice of high school romance life where a group of teenagers deal with UnrequitedLove and their last year of high school.
29* ''Manga/BootyRoyaleNeverGoDownWithoutAFight'': A WorkCom about professional adult models, several of whom who also do martial arts.
30* ''Manga/BreastsAreMyFavoriteThingsInTheWorld'': Slice of life about an archery club member who is obsessed with large breasts.
31* ''Manga/BunnyDrop'': Slice of parental life
32* ''Manga/CafeKichijoujiDe'': Slice of life about five {{Bishonen}} waiters working in the titular cafe.
33* ''Manga/CaheDetectiveClub'': Similar to above, but gender-flipped and it's a detective cafe.
34* ''Anime/CandyBoy'': Slice of life with hints of [[YuriGenre lesbian]] {{twincest}}.
35* ''Manga/CarGraffitiJK'': Slice of high school girls' car club life.
36* ''Manga/CastleTownDandelion'': Slice of extremely ModestRoyalty life with [[RoyaltySuperpower superpowers]], under constant surveillance.
37* ''Manga/ACentaursLife'': The daily life of a high school centaur girl.
38* ''Manga/CellsNotAtWork'': A Macrophage cell tries to raise a bunch of Erythroblasts into full-fledged Red Blood Cells...but they refuse to grow up. HilarityEnsues.
39* ''Manga/ChibiMarukoChan'': The everyday life of a 9-year old girl, her family and her classmates in pre-Internet era Japan.
40* ''Manga/ChibisanDate'': A slice of peaceful life on an island.
41* ''Manga/ChierisLoveIs8MetersTall'': a slice of life about a 8 meter giantess going to Highschool.
42* ''Manga/ChisSweetHome'': Adorable kitty does adorable kitty things. Basically a kitty version of ''Manga/KOn''.
43* ''Manga/{{CITY}}'': A slice of life manga about the residents of a particular city.
44* ''Manga/CoffeeAndCat'': Follows a high school student who failed to get into university and his cat that he literally cannot live without as they come to work at a coffee shop in Hakodate.
45* ''Manga/CojiCoji'': Slice of life of fictional characters.
46* ''Manga/ComicGirls'': Follows a group of high-school aged manga artists who share a dorm together as they work hard to improve their skills
47* ''Anime/CrayonShinChan'': Arguably, a slice of a 5-year old boy's life, as he makes everyone's lives impossible. HilarityEnsues!
48* ''Manga/CroiseeInAForeignLabyrinth'': Slice of Parisian life
49* ''Manga/DailyLivesOfHighSchoolBoys'': Slice of all-boys' high schooler life.
50* ''Anime/DaisukiBuBuChaCha'': The gentle adventures of a young preschooler learning about the world around him, supernatural themes notwithstanding.
51* ''Manga/TheDangersInMyHeart '': Slice of life romantic comedy about two middle school students; a boy who holds back "murderous urges" (In actually, a socially awkward bookworm/CharacterNarrator with a {{Chuunibyou}} mindset) and a [[HugeSchoolgirl tall]], clumsy girl with [[BigEater a huge appetite]] who works part-time as a model.
52* ''Manga/DemonSlayerKimetsuNoYaiba'': The Gakuen/Academy universe, originally created by the series author Gotoge Koyoharu as short segments at the end of each manga volume, transplanting the original cast into a modern world without any drama or fighting, just teens living their school lives and interacting with some wacky citizens. These shorts were adapted into slightly longer shorts for the anime adaptation, and eventually, a full spin-off manga was made by Natsuki Hokami.
53* ''Anime/DenNohCoil'': Slice of tech-savvy, junior high-schooler life.
54* ''Anime/DiamondDaydreams'': Slice of [[SceneryPorn Hokkaido]] life. Likely ''Anime/{{Piano}}'''s closest contender in terms of purity.
55* ''Manga/DinosaurSanctuary'' follows the everyday work that goes on at an ExtinctAnimalPark as the zoo's staff takes care of its dinosaurs.
56* ''Anime/DoItYourself'': Cute girls running a home improvement club in a near-futuristic setting.
57* ''Manga/DokiDokiSchoolHours'', excluding the out-of-place [[ParodyEpisode genre spoof episodes]].
58* ''Manga/DomesticGirlfriend'': Slice of life of a young student who aspires to become a professional writer, and the romance that blossoms between him and his two stepsisters, one of whom is his teacher.
59* ''Manga/DontToyWithMeMissNagatoro'' - Slice of life with a LovingBully and BDSM implications.
60* ''Anime/{{Doraemon}}'': A slice-of-life cartoonish anime about [[ABoyAndHisX a boy and his robot cat best friend from the future]], although it does mix in sci-fi elements too.
61* ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'': Slice of superpowered life at the beginning of the series, when you put aside [[TheDreaded Beerus]]' movements. The episodes in-between each story arc also follow this format, putting them into more mundane and light-hearted situations to flesh them out and show what their lives are like when they aren't defending the universe from outside threats.
62* ''Manga/DungeonFriendsForever'': Fantasy slice of life in which an adventurer conquers a dungeon on a daily basis to hang out with the final boss, his childhood friend.
63* ''Manga/TheElderSisterLikeOne'': Slice of [[Franchise/CthulhuMythos Lovecraftian-horror]] life about an unspeakable monster summoned as a big sister. Laundry ensues.
64* ''Manga/TheEmperorAndI'': Slice of life about a family who find an emperor penguin in their fridge.
65* ''Anime/{{Endro}}'': Slice of Life about four adventurers going to Adventurer School to learn how to stop the Demon Lord (again), and not doing a very good job of it.
66* ''Anime/EurekaSeven'' starts out as a very mellow Slice of GiantRobot life anime. Around Episode 13 it starts picking up in action and darkness, and by Episode 25 it's turned into a nearly full-blown action series. This was intentional on the part of the creators, as they wanted to focus on what happens to characters before, during, and at the end of a war.
67* ''Manga/ExpressionlessFaceGirlAndEmotionalFaceBoy'': Slice of life about an abrasive high schoolboy trying to provoke an emotional response from an expressionless girl.
68* ''Manga/FatherAndSon'': Slice of life with a father and his son.
69* ''Manga/AFineAndBrightDay'': A slice of life of two stepsisters.
70* ''Manga/FlowerGirlInDystopia'': A post-apocalyptic slice of life about a girl living in a city full of non-humans.
71* ''Manga/FlyingWitch'': Slice of a witch's life in a rural town.
72* ''Anime/{{Free}}'': Slice of swim club life featuring a whole crowd of [[PrettyBoy pretty boys]].
73* ''Anime/FromUpOnPoppyHill'': Although this is just one film, we can see the daily routine of the main character several times.
74* ''Anime/FullMetalPanicFumoffu'': Slice of high school life.
75* ''Manga/GakuenBabysitters'': Slice of daycare life.
76* ''Manga/{{Genshiken}}'': Slice of {{otaku}} life.
77* ''Manga/{{Gingitsune}}'': Slice of life at a {{UsefulNotes/Shinto}} shrine.
78* ''Manga/GirlsLastTour'': Slice of life following two girls after the collapse of civilization.
79* ''Anime/GirlsUndPanzer'': Slice of life on female students studying in Sensha-do (tank combat) schools.
80* ''Manga/GohanNoOtomo'': General slice of life about food, friendship, relationships, and life in general.
81* ''Manga/GoodDayToYouHowAboutAGame'': Girls in a private Catholic academy bond over a mahjong mobile game, with some DeepImmersionGaming as their avatars do battle.
82* ''Manga/GourmetGirlGraffiti'': Slice of life cooking and eating together.
83* ''Manga/GrandBlue'': Slice of life {{Seinen}} college diving club...with loads of drinking.
84* ''Manga/GrannyGirlHinataChan'': Slice of life of a kindergartner who retains the memories, personality, and mannerisms from her past life as a grandmother.
85* ''Manga/TheGreatJahyWillNotBeDefeated'': The former second-in-commands is put into PerpetualPoverty in a childlike form after a magical girl destroyed the Demon Realm and its ruler.
86* ''Anime/HaibaneRenmei'': Slice of after-life (according to the most common interpretation of the series).
87* ''Manga/HanaTheFoxGirl'': Slice of life with a little fox girl.
88* ''Manga/HandsomeGirlAndCrossdressingBoy'': Slice of life with a gender-nonconforming couple who are both new to romance.
89* ''Manga/HappyKanakosKillerLife'': An ex-OfficeLady unwittingly joins an assassination agency and becoming very good at it.
90* ''Manga/HatarakanaiFutari'': Slice of life about two unemployed siblings.
91* ''Manga/HelloMelancholic'': Slice of life {{Yuri}} story about a ShrinkingViolet joining a band.
92* ''Anime/HelloSandybell'': Slice of life about a girl growing up in Scotland with her BigFriendlyDog.
93* ''Manga/HidamariSketch'': Slice of art school life, high school edition.
94* ''Manga/HighSchoolNinjaGirlOtonashiSan'': Slice of high school life with ninjas.
95* ''VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry'': Starts off as a slice of life before devolving into a psychological horror series. The [=OVA=]s tend to stick closer towards this genre.
96* ''Anime/HimitsuNoHanazono'': Slice of life about a girl who finds joy in tending to her mansion's garden. An anime adaptation of the novel ''Literature/TheSecretGarden'' by Creator/FrancesHodgsonBurnett.
97* ''Manga/HinakoNote'': Slice of life about a shy girl who joins a theater club.
98* ''Manga/HinosanNoBaka'': Slice of life about Class President Koguma tries to convince her fellow classmate to stop skipping class, but has to do bizarre requests for her to win her compliance.
99* ''Manga/{{Hitohira}}'': Slice of high school drama club life.
100* ''Manga/HitomiChanIsShyWithStrangers'': Slice of high school life focusing on the cute interactions of a TinyGuyHugeGirl duo.
101* ''Manga/HitoribocchiNoOOSeikatsu'': Slice of middle school life as an extremely shy girl tries to make friends.
102* ''Manga/HoneyAndClover'': Slice of art school life, college edition.
103* ''Manga/{{Horimiya}}'': A quiet teenage boy makes friend with a seemingly ordinary teenage girl, although being different when she's not in school.
104* ''Manga/HowHeavyAreTheDumbbellsYouLift'' Slice of life featuring high school girls (and a teacher) trying to stay in shape.
105* ''Manga/HowToTreatALadyKnightRight'': Fantasy SliceOfLife starring a badass female knight unprepared for love confessions and other aspects of non-warrior life.
106* ''Manga/{{Hyakko}}'': Slice of ElaborateUniversityHigh life.
107* ''Manga/{{Hyakuen}}'': Slice of money-saving high school girls' life, with a dash of comedy and hint of {{ecchi}}.
108* ''Manga/{{Hyakunichikan}}'': A high school boy living alone has to take care of a family friend's young daughter for three months.
109* ''Manga/ICantUnderstandWhatMyHusbandIsSaying'': Slice of life of a married couple where one of them is an {{Otaku}}.
110* ''Manga/IsKichijojiTheOnlyPlaceToLive'': Slice of life about two sisters running an estate agency.
111* ''Manga/ISOtokoDemoOnnaDemoNaiSei'': About the lives of intersex people and their everyday issues.
112* ''Manga/IThinkOurSonIsGay'' (''Uchi no Musuko wa Tabun Gay''): Slice of life about a family [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin whose eldest son is probably gay]] and [[TransparentCloset really bad at hiding it]].
113* ''Anime/TheIdolmaster'' - Slice of life with an Idol twist.
114* ''Manga/IfADemonLordWereToGetMarriedInTheCountryside'': Slice of life manga about a demon girl and an average elementary schoolteacher in a countryside.
115* ''Manga/InsideMari'': Slice of life combined with a [[{{Deconstruction}} terrifying take]] on FreakyFridayFlip.
116* ''Manga/InsomniacsAfterSchool'': Slice of life about two teenagers with insomnia finding companionship with each other.
117* ''Manga/InterviewsWithMonsterGirls'' : Slice of life about a high school Biology teacher interacting with demi humans and learning more about them.
118* ''Manga/InTheHeartOfKunoichiTsubaki'': Slice of life about a clan of female ninja-in-training all wanting to learn about men.
119* ''Manga/InThisCornerOfTheWorld'': Slice of life about a young woman during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, at least until [[spoiler:[[DeathOfAChild Harumi's death]] and Suzu losing her right hand]]. After that, [[CerebusSyndrome the plot and tone become much more serious]].
120* ''Manga/{{Iromonia}}'': Slice of life about a blind girl lost in another city after being separated by her parents. [[MoodDissonance But it is also famously known for its dark tone despite the light-hearted premise.]]
121* ''Manga/IsTheOrderARabbit'': Slice of coffee shop waitressing life, set in an idyllic beautiful European town.
122* ''Manga/ItsMyLifeImomushiNarita'': Slice of life in a {{fantasy}} setting involving a retired guard and an elf.
123* ''Manga/IwakakeruSportClimbingGirls'': Slice of life about a sports climbing team competing to become the best team in Japan.
124* ''Anime/JingaiSanNoYome'': Slice of life following a group of high school students being married to strange creatures.
125* ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureDiamondIsUnbreakable'' follows the daily lives of Josuke and his friends in Morioh Town. Their very bizarre lives.
126* ''Manga/JoshiKausei'': A [[SilenceIsGolden silent]] slice of life following three high school girls, Momoko, Mayumi, and Shibumi.
127* ''Manga/JunjiItosCatDiaryYonAndMu'': A slice of life following a couple adopting a cat at their pet. Based on Ito's experience in raising a cat of his own with his wife.
128* ''Anime/JustBecause'': Slice of high school life.
129* ''Manga/KakushigotoMyDadsSecretAmbition'': A mangaka tries to keep his job a secret from his daughter.
130* ''Anime/{{Kamichu}}'': Slice of divine life. Shinto-flavored, of course.
131* ''Anime/KamisamaMinaraiHimitsuNoCocotama'': A slice of divine life with a mixture of Shintoism and Christianity.
132* ''Manga/KanojoNiNaritaiKimiToBoku'': A trans girl and her best friend starting high school.
133* ''Kaasan Mom's Life (Mainichi Kaasan)'': Follows the life of a manga author raising two young children.
134* ''Manga/KidsOnTheSlope'': A slice of life manga set in 1966 where three high school kids find common ground with jazz while living in the 1960s years after the end of World War II.
135* ''Anime/KikisDeliveryService'' compresses this trope into a movie, and quite successfully so.
136* ''Manga/KimagureOrangeRoad'': RomanticComedy LoveTriangle slice of life with PsychicPowers
137* ''Manga/KimiNiTodoke'': A slice of high school life.
138* ''Manga/KinIroMosaic'': Slice of school life, this time with two cute British exchange students.
139* ''Anime/KirbyRightBackAtYa'': Half VideoGame/{{Kirby}} kicking ass, half slice of the townspeople's life under a corrupt and presumably illegitimate monarchy. Contains a lot of subtle satire and social commentary.
140* ''Manga/KissAndWhiteLilyForMyDearestGirl'': Slice of [[YuriGenre Yuri]] life n°2, following two genius girls and a few others.
141* ''Manga/KiyoInKyotoFromTheMaikoHouse'': Cooking slice of life about the daily life of a young caterer in a maiko house.
142* ''Manga/KocchiMuiteMikko'': Slice of life about an elementary schoolgirl's life with her family and her friends.
143* ''Manga/KokoroLibrary'': Slice of library-managing life.
144* ''Manga/KomiCantCommunicate'': Slice of life about a [[SoBeautifulItsACurse beautiful but]] [[NoSocialSkills socially awkward]] girl and her attempts to be more outgoing and make friends.
145* ''Manga/KomorisanCantDecline'': Slice of life about a girl that [[ExtremeDoormat can't decline requests]].
146* ''Manga/KOn'': Slice of all-girl high-school rock band life.
147* ''Manga/KonohanaKitan'': Slice of life about fox girls working at a supernatural inn.
148* ''Anime/KurageNoShokudo'': A slice of life about a runaway boy in a restaurant.
149* ''Manga/{{Kuro}}'': A slice of life with some horror elements about a girl and her cat.
150* ''Manga/TheKurosagiCorpseDeliveryService'': Slice of dead people's lives and of the people who talk to them.
151* ''Manga/LaidBackCamp'': Slice of camping life.
152* ''VisualNovel/{{Lamune}}'': Slice of seaside summer life.
153* ''Manga/LifeLessonsWithUramichiOniisan'': Slice of life manga about a bunch of people in their 20s and 30s trying to find stability in their life while working in a TV station hosting for a kids-themed show.
154* ''Manga/LoveHina'': Slice of life about a guy forced to live in an all-female apartment dorm.
155* ''Manga/LoveIsInTheBag'': Slice of high school life involving a girl who turns into a bag.
156* ''Manga/LuckyStar'': Slice of life with a lot of LampshadeHanging and references to {{Otaku}} culture.
157* ''Anime/LucyMayOfTheSouthernRainbow'': Many episodes are about Lucy May getting to know more about her neighbours, - the kind baker Jane, the friendly carpenter Jamling, and the old shepherd Larry. Some episodes focus on their families and what brought them to Australia too.
158* ''Anime/LuminousWitches'': A slice of life series about a group of singing Witches trying to improve morale during the Neuroi battles.
159* ''Manga/{{Mahoraba}}'': A slice of cute, romantic life.
160* ''Manga/MagicalSempai'': Slice of stage magic club life.
161* ''Manga/TheMaidIHiredRecentlyIsMysterious'': Slice of life about an orphaned young boy being taken care of by his maid.
162* ''Manga/ManabiStraight'': Slice of high school student council life TwentyMinutesInTheFuture.
163* ''Anime/MapleTown'': Slice of life about a world filled with anthropomorphic cute talking animals. Mainly focusing on a talking cute talking rabbit and her daily life in town and school life.
164* ''Manga/MarchComesInLikeALion'': Slice of Life as a teenage professional shogi player.
165* ''Manga/TheMarshmallowTimes'': Slice of life of seven children running a journalism team.
166* ''Manga/TheMasterfulCatIsDepressedAgainToday''
167* ''Manga/MassuguNiIkou'': Slice of dog life, with some scenes about their owners as well.
168* ''Manga/MidoriNoMakibao'': Horse-racing! Buying back ''your mom''! It doesn't get more slice of life than this!
169* ''Manga/MinamiKe'': Slice of three sisters' lives in an apartment. Every episode even begins with a statement asking the viewers not to expect anything more than that.
170* ''Manga/MidnightOccultCivilServants'': Slife of life manga on Shinjuku city employees keeping an eye on the supernatural and mediating conflicts.
171* ''Manga/MissKobayashisDragonMaid'': Slice of life about a dragon serving as the maid of a woman who saved her life.
172* ''Manga/MitsuboshiColors'': Slice of life of three elementary girls playing around a park.
173* ''Manga/{{Mokke}}'': Slice of ghost-haunted life.
174* ''Manga/{{Momokuri}}'': Slice of life for a high school girl who stalks her own boyfriend, but in a cute way.
175* ''Manga/{{Mono|2017}}'': Slice of life about five girls traveling across Japan while taking pictures.
176* ''Manga/MononokeSharing'': Slice of life about a high school student and the five yokai she shares an apartment with.
177* ''Manga/MonsterMusume'': Slice of life {{Harem|Genre}} comedy about {{Cute Monster Girl}}s.
178* ''Webcomic/MousouTelepathy'': A Japanese webcomic about a mind reading girl and the guy who has a crush on her.
179* ''Manga/MonthlyGirlsNozakiKun'': A slice of life about a high schooler who's secretly a manga artist and his friends. Frequently parodies {{Shoujo}} manga tropes.
180* ''Manga/{{Moyashimon}}'': Slice of college life with a guy who can see microbes.
181* ''Manga/MusukoGaKawaikuteShikataganaiMazokuNoHahaoya'': Slice of life of a demon trying her best to raise her infant son right.
182* ''Manga/TheMuteGirlAndHerNewFriend'': Slice of life about a mute girl befriending a girl with telepathy when she transfers to a new school.
183* ''Manga/MyBoy'': Slice of life about a 30-year-old woman's relationship with a 12-year-old boy.
184* ''Manga/MyBrideIsAMermaid'': Slice of life detailing the relationship of a high school student and a mermaid.
185* ''Manga/MyGirlfriendIsATRex'': Slice of [[CuteMonsterGirl cute dinosaur/human hybrids]]' life.
186* ''Webcomic/MyHusbandWasActuallyAWoman'': An autobiographical webcomic about a cis woman whose spouse comes out as a trans woman. It was published in one book on October 13, 2020.
187* ''Manga/MyLovelyGhostKana'': Slice of life and life after death.
188* ''Anime/MyNeighborTotoro'': Two girls move to a new place as they deal with the reality of their mother's sickness.
189* ''Manga/MyRoommateIsACat'': A reclusive novelist living with his new pet cat, slowly bringing him out of his shell.
190* ''Manga/MySenpaiIsAnnoying'': A grumpy office worker with a height complex deals with the ups and downs of her taller and more boisterous coworker.
191* ''Manga/MyWifeHasNoEmotion'': The daily life of a salaryman and the household robot who has become his common-law wife.
192* ''Manga/{{Nana}}'': Arguably one of the strongest and human series about two woman, a naive and bubbly woman and a rise-to-fame singer both named Nana who share an apartment together.
193* ''Manga/NatsumesBookOfFriends'': Slice of life about a boy who can see spirits, some obligations left to him by his grandmother, and his SnarkyNonhumanSidekick.
194* ''Manga/NeighborhoodStory'': Slice of eccentric art school life.
195* ''Manga/{{Nichijou}}'': Slice of ordinary life. Except it's anything but ordinary.
196* ''Manga/NotLoveButDeliciousFoodsMakeMeSoHappy'': A mangaka samples her favorite restaurants in Tokyo. Lots of FoodPorn.
197* ''Manga/NurseHitomisMonsterInfirmary'': The daily lives of high school staff and students in a world where everyone has weird mutations or powers. Imagine the ComicBook/XMen Academy without the superhero stuff, and there are no {{Muggles}}.
198* ''Manga/NodameCantabile'': Slice of music school life.
199* ''Manga/NoMatterWhatYouSayFurisanIsScary'': Slice of life romance comedy where an alleged [[JapaneseDelinquents deliquent]] falls for the main character.
200* ''Manga/NonNonBiyori'': Slice of country life focusing on four girls in a small town.
201* ''Manga/NyankoDays'': Slice of life story centered around high school girls with their cats.
202* ''Manga/OMaidensInYourSavageSeason'': Slice of life/coming-of-age story about a group of girls going through the awkward stages of adulthood.
203* ''Anime/OhSuddenlyEgyptianGod'': Showcasing the lives of Ancient Egyptian gods, having fun and being in all sorts of shenanigans.
204* ''Manga/OneechanBiyori'': A slice-of-life schoolgirl story about two sisters in Kansai region.
205* ''Anime/OnlyYesterday'': A young woman takes a vacation in the countryside while reminiscing about her childhood. The atmosphere is very low-key and focuses on ordinary, everyday events.
206* ''Manga/OtasukeMikoMikoChan'': Slice of life of a gender-confused teenager who is also a MagicalGirl.
207* ''Anime/OyakoClub'': The series is about the daily lives of two aliens and a human family.
208* ''Manga/PanDePeace'': A slice of life story about four girls, who have one thing they like in common: bread.
209* ''Anime/PaniPoniDash'': A slice of life depicting a class of high schoolers, but taken to ridiculous extremes and exaggerations.
210* ''Manga/ParadiseKiss'': Slice of average teenager life meets slice of oddball fashion design student life.
211* ''Franchise/{{Patlabor}}'': Slice of Humongous Mecha pilot life.
212** ''Anime/MobilePolicePatlaborTheEarlyDays'': Mostly follows the Labor crews getting into mischief while waiting for the RedAlert to sound.
213** ''Anime/PatlaborTheTVSeries'': Again, follows the Labor crews during their standby and off-duty lives just as much as during action.
214* ''Manga/PerfectWorld'' - A manga serial about an interior designer starting a relationship with her former high school senpai, an architect with a spinal cord injury.
215* ''Anime/Persona4TheGoldenAnimation'': 8 of 12 episodes have high school friends hanging out in their small rural town.
216* ''Anime/PhantasyStarOnline2TheAnimation'': Slice of school life centered around [[VideoGame/PhantasyStarOnline2 the mega-popular video game of the same name.]] Then mid-season GenreShift hits around Episode 7, at which point it becomes an action series.
217* ''Anime/{{Piano}}'': Slice of SliceOfLife life. Perhaps the purest anime-example of this trope one can find.
218* ''Anime/{{Planetes}}'': Slice of astronaut life.
219* ''Manga/PleaseGoHomeAkutsuSan'': Slice of life about a high school girl frequenting a teenage boy's apartment room.
220* ''Manga/{{Plica}}'': Slice of Japanese lesbian life.
221* ''Anime/PokemonConcierge'': Slice of life show set in the wider Pokemon-verse where a woman named Haru is recruited to work in an island resort and see to the needs of the customers and the pokemon.
222* ''Manga/PrivateActress'': Slice of life centered on an high school-aged actress who works on helping others keep up with their own lives.
223* ''Manga/RamenFighterMiki'': A slice of a group of {{Burger Fool}}s in a shopping district that practice MundaneMadeAwesome life.
224* ''Manga/RainsHead'': A slice of life about a beast girl who is suffering from a terminal illness and only has three years to live.
225* ''Anime/RealDrive'': Slice of cyborg life set on a tropical island, inspired by the ''Anime/GhostInTheShellStandAloneComplex'' universe.
226* ''Ro-Kyu-Bu!'': An inspiring slice of life story about a teenage basketball player roped into training a group of gradeschool girls in basketball.
227* ''Manga/ARoomForTwo'': Two girls with very different personalities share a room while going to highschool.
228* ''Manga/SaintYoungMen'': Daily life in Japan as experienced by [[JesusWasWayCool Jesus]] and Buddha.
229* ''Anime/SakuraQuest'': Slice of life of a girl forced to move to the countryside (again) in order to secure a job after failing to get one in the big city.
230* ''Manga/SakuraTrick'': Slice of school life for lesbian couples.
231* ''Manga/SanchoumeZouhyouMonogatari''" Slice of life about girls claiming to be warriors throughout history living in a dingy, old apartment complex in modern day Japan.
232* ''Manga/SandChronicles'': A dramatic slice of life that follows BrokenBird Ann's life from her adolescence to adulthood.
233* ''Manga/SayonaraZetsubouSensei'': Slice of suicidally depressed, socially satirical life pumped [[ThisIsYourPremiseOnDrugs with crack and LSD]].
234* ''Manga/SazaeSan'': Slice of life of a typical Japanese housewife at home with her parents, her very young siblings, her husband, and her child.
235* ''Manga/SchoolLive'': Starts out as a slice of ZombieApocalypse high school life, but the characters eventually leave the high school, and after meeting other survivors the story moves away from slice of life antics and focuses more on an ongoing plot.
236* ''Manga/SeiyusLife: Three new female voice actors try to cope with the world of voice acting in Japan, although one of them's been working for a while since she finished training school.
237* ''Manga/SensitiveBoy'': Slice of life about a boy seeking a normal life following a traumatic incident.
238* ''Manga/SchoolRumble'': Slice of romantic (often surreal) high school life.
239* ''Manga/SchoolOfWaterBusiness'': Slice of high school life... in a school teaching adult entertainment.
240* ''Manga/SeishunKouryakuhon'': Slice of high school life, focusing on the impending graduation of a group of teenage boys.
241* ''Manga/SenryuGirl''
242* ''Anime/ShimaShimaToraNoShimajiro''
243* ''Manga/ShimejiSimulation'': A slice of life about a girl who goes out of her closet after two years of reclusion. [[spoiler:Except the manga is an ExistentialHorror and the very first WhamEpisode [[CerebusSyndrome changes the entire tone completely]].]]
244* ''Manga/ShinkaigyoNoAnkoSan''
245* ''Manga/ShirokumaCafe'': Slice of life with {{FunnyAnimal}}s at a cafe run by a polar bear.
246* ''Manga/ShouanDays'': A slice of life story about a dynamite-turned-human girl.
247* ''Manga/SilverNina'': Slice of life of a {{NEET}} and his niece in the Japanese countryside.
248* ''Manga/SilverSpoon'': Slice of life in an agricultural school.
249* ''Manga/SisconAniToBroconImoutoGaShoujikiNiNattara'': a RomanticComedy involving BrotherSisterIncest with SliceOfLife elements.
250* ''Manga/{{Sketchbook}}'': Like ''Honey And Clover'' and ''Manga/HidamariSketch'', but with a FunnyForeigner and lots of cats.
251* ''Manga/SkullFaceBooksellerHondaSan'' - Slice of life semi-autobiography manga turned anime written by "Honda" based on his experience working retail in a bookstore.
252* ''Manga/SlimeLife'': Slice of ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin.
253* ''Manga/SlowLoop''
254* ''Manga/SlowStart''
255* ''Manga/{{Solanin}}'': Slice of life of two average twenty-somethings trying to figure out their lives after university.
256* ''Manga/SmokingBehindTheSupermarketWithYou''
257* ''Manga/SomedaysDreamers'': Slice of magical life.
258* ''Manga/SomedaysDreamersIISora'': Slice of magical life, but with ''more drama'' still.
259* ''Anime/SoundOfTheSky'': Slice of 5 cute teen soldier girls garrisoned in a peaceful town life [[spoiler:except for the last 2 episodes]].
260* ''Manga/SpottedFlower'': Chronicling the life of a newlywed couple: an Otaku Husband and a fiery pregnant wife, and their love life.
261* ''Manga/StrawberryMarshmallow'': Slice of four cute kids and their CoolBigSis's life.
262* ''Manga/{{Sukaraiti}}'': Post-apocalyptic slice-of-life about a robot girl.
263* ''Anime/SuperSonico'': Slice of the daily life of a college student who also works part time as a gravure model and plays rock music as a hobby. Granted, said college student happens to ''also'' be the mascot character of {{Creator/Nitroplus}}, but this little detail is never mentioned in-universe.
264* ''Anime/SuzysZooDaisukiWitzy'': Magical soft toys coming to life notwithstanding, most episodes are about Witzy going on gentle romps in the location he's in.
265* ''Manga/SweetBlueFlowers'': Slice of QueerRomance life with a LoveDodecahedron.
266* ''Manga/SweetnessAndLightning'': Slice of cooking life.
267* ''Anime/{{Tamagotchi}}'': Cute little alien creatures go about their daily lives. A mixture of this and the fantasy genre, with some episodes veering more into one of those genres than the other.
268* ''Manga/TamamoChansAFox'': Slice of life with an Inari fox spirit secretly attending high school, oblivious to the fact her classmates can see right through her disguise.
269* ''Manga/TanakaKunIsAlwaysListless'' is about the eponymous [[{{Sleepyhead}} lethargic boy]] Tanaka, Ohta, [[TheChampion the boy who tries to make sure he gets by day to day]], and the friends that suddenly kick the door into their peaceful lives demanding that Tanaka actually get ''involved'' in things.
270* ''Anime/{{Tamayura}}'': slice of photographing life.
271* ''Manga/TeasingMasterTakagiSan'': Slice of life centered around a middle school boy trying to one-up his female best friend, who has a crush on him.
272* ''Manga/TheresAGhostBehindThatGal'': Slice of life about two high-school girls, one of which has taken in a FriendlyGhost.
273* ''Manga/TodaysMenuForTheEmiyaFamily'' is a LighterAndSofter slice of life spinoff from ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'' that focuses on the food that's cooked and served by Shirou (and occasionally other characters as well) to the other characters.
274* ''Manga/TonariNoYoukaiSan'': Slice of life in a small rural town in Japan with {{youkai}} living there.
275* ''Anime/ToukenRanbuHanamaru'': An adaptation of [[VideoGame/ToukenRanbu the game]] that [[spoiler:[[MoodWhiplash mostly]]]] focuses on the daily lives of the sword warriors and their relationships with each other.
276* ''Anime/{{Trider G7}}'': Slice of a [[SuperRobotGenre Super Robot]]-piloting KidHero's life.
277* ''Manga/TsukiNiKakuretaTaiyo''
278* ''Manga/TsunokeiJoshiWaKokurenai''
279* ''Manga/TsuribakaNisshi'': Slice of life fishing manga.
280* ''Manga/TheUnpopularMangakaAndTheHelpfulOnryoSan'': A struggling mangaka lives with a StringyHairedGhostGirl.
281* ''Manga/TwilightStarSuiAndNeri'': A heart-warming sci-fi story between the GenkiGirl Sui and the sloth Neri in a future world.
282* ''Manga/UzakiChanWantsToHangOut'': The life of a cute, but slightly annoying, college kouhai wanting to make sure her senpai has at least one friend in his life, even though he really isn’t an outcast, he just enjoys being alone sometimes.
283* ''Manga/UzaMaidOurMaidIsWayTooAnnoying'': An ex-JDSF pilot becomes a maid due to her obsession with a Russian-Japanese girl.
284* ''Virgin Night'': Specifically life's sexual slices. Of the sort [[LighterAndSofter most people actually]] ''[[LighterAndSofter have]]''.
285* ''Manga/WakakoZake'': A series of JournalComic-style vignettes about a young woman's adventures indulging in her favorite pastime: eating and drinking delicious food.
286* ''Manga/TheWalkingMan'': One of the more extreme examples of this genre, as this manga is entirely fixated upon the current moment in time, not an overarching narrative.
287* ''Manga/WanderingSon'': Slice of [[UsefulNotes/{{Transgender}} transchildren]] life.
288* ''Manga/WatatenAnAngelFlewDownToMe'': Slice of life about a college student falling for her younger sister's friend, and making sweets for her in return for modeling in cosplay outfits.
289* ''Manga/WaveListenToMe'': Slice of life taking place in Sapporo where a young woman is ''recruited'' to work in a local radio station after airing her bad laundry over her breakup.
290* ''Manga/TheWayOfTheHousehusband'': A RetiredBadass Yakuza becomes a HouseHusband. Hilarity ensues.
291* ''Manga/WhatDidYouEatYesterday'' focuses on the daily lives of a gay couple and the meals they cook for each other.
292* ''Manga/WhereAreYouGoingToday'': A quirky slice of life about embarking on a road trip across Japan's famous streets and landmarks.
293* ''Manga/WifeAndWife'': The life of a young lesbian couple who have just moved in together.
294* ''Anime/WindyTales'': Slice of wind manipulation life.
295* ''Manga/WithTheLight'': Slice of life raising an autistic child.
296* ''Anime/WolfChildren'': Slice of werewolf life, and their human mother.
297* ''Manga/TheYakuzasGuideToBabysitting'': The righthand enforcer of a Yakuza clan is given the task of babysitting his boss's daughter.
298* ''Manga/YokohamaKaidashiKikou'': [[JustForFun/XMeetsY Slice of]] [[CosyCatastrophe post-apocalypse]] life.
299* ''Anime/YomigaeruSoraRescueWings'': Slice of life of a JASDF fighter pilot who was (forced) to accept a post as a SAR chopper pilot to aid civil authorities in disasters and rescue ops.
300* ''Manga/{{Yotsuba}}'': slice of summer-vacation-with-new-kid-in-town life.
301* ''Manga/YouAndMe'': A slice of boys' life, about a group of boys who've known one another since kindergarten living out their high school days in relative peace (and hijinks).
302* ''Manga/YuruYuri'': Slice of life with yuri undertones.
303* ''Manga/{{Yuyushiki}}'': Slice of high school girl life... with yuri undertones.

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